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10 Soft Skills to Nail the Ask

BoardAssist

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. One of the most challenging things in an ask is managing your own composure and delivery while simultaneously listening for verbal and nonverbal cues from your donor. That is a lot happening at once! Featured in CosmoGIRL!,

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

April 7, 2016: Preplanning Your Digital Story from Concept to Storyboard with filmmaker Liz Norton and digital media trainer Nife Adeyemi, who will talk about nailing down a solid video concept, give tips on scripting and storyboarding, and describe what you need to do before you pick up a camera. Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They threw themselves into writing scripts and filming, gathering costume pieces, and otherwise doing much more in 24 hours than I would have thought possible. The contributors to our blog about Texas energy re-tooled how they write and edit posts to make it more flexible and inclusive. And that made the presentations really good.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

But don’t do that right now because we got Sabrina Walker Hernandez joining us from beautiful Texas. Right, Sabrina, you’re in Texas? Sabrina: I am in South Texas. Steven: It’s cold here in Indy too if it’s cold in Texas. Steven: For South Texas, that’s. You got to check her out.

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[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

At least wait an hour because we’ve got some good year-end tips for you from my good buddy, Rachel Muir, joining us from beautiful Austin, Texas. ” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. But don’t do that right now. Are you doing okay?

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

If you know that in Texas we had the winter storms, in Houston area, because of the winter storms, the only way I could still work was my phone. And so I’ll do like a script with them. I let them know who I’m representing, I let them know the initiatives and what we need help with, and I reach out that way. My cell phone.

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Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Texas Care for Kids set up a Facebook event for their rally — they were planning to do this anyway no matter which way the decision went. 2) Use Multiple Channels and Shape Content for each Channel. During the afternoon we used Facebook to post analyses from partners and Twitter to highlight what ACA is already doing in Arkansas.